Robert M Veatch

The death of whole-brain death: the plague of the disaggregators, somaticists, and mentalists.

The Journal of medicine and philosophy August 2005 Robert M Veatch

In its October 2001 issue, this journal published a series of articles questioning the Whole-Brain-based definition of death. Much of the concern focused on whether somatic integration-a commonly understood basis for the whole-brain death view-can survive the brain's death. The present article accepts that there are insurmountable problems with whole-brain death views, but challenges the...